This paper attempts to disentangle the direct effects of experience from those of culturein determining fertility. We use the GSS to examine the fertility of women born in the USbut from different ethnic backgrounds. We take lagged values of the total fertility rate in the woman s country of...

We study the effect of culture on important economic outcomes by using the 1970 Census toexamine the work and fertility behavior of women 30-40 years old, born in the U.S., but whose parents were born elsewhere. We use past female labor force participation and total fertility rates from the...